Why liberals ignored the grooming gang scandal
For many years, liberals refused to talk about the grooming gangs scandal. The systematic sexual abuse and rape of hundreds,…
The President’s decision: will Trump assist Israel with dismantling Iran’s nuclear program?
As the Israel-Iran war approaches its sixth day, President Donald Trump may hold the key to whether the Islamic Republic’s…
MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
MPs have voted to make the biggest change to abortion laws in 50 years this evening, backing the decriminalising of…
Starmer looked out of place in the mountains with Sky’s Beth Rigby
Sir Keir Starmer was doing an interview with Beth Rigby in the lush mountain landscape of Canada. Hardly a man…
Trump is putting ‘America First’ by ignoring the MAGA punditocracy
Political imbrioglios often take on the character of theological controversy. Back in the 6th century, the wise men of the…
Under Trump, there is no G7 – only a G1
President Trump moved through the G7 Summit in Alberta like a blowsy uncle swinging by the house for a drink…
Ex-Tory MP pleads guilty to harassment
To Cardiff, where a former Conservative politician has pleaded guilty to harassing their ex-wife. Katie Wallis, formerly Jamie Wallis who…
Rachel Reeves’s non-dom crackdown has truly backfired
Rachel Reeves may finally have seen sense. A report in this morning’s Financial Times suggests she is ‘exploring’ performing a 180 on…
Poll: just 3 per cent of women back Stella Creasy’s abortion amendment
It is a big week for big Commons moments. On Monday, we had the long-awaited announcement of an inquiry into…
Kemi Badenoch defends the Tories’ record on grooming gangs
Kemi Badenoch said that ‘survivors and their families’ have been ‘ignored for far too long’ as she appeared alongside those…
Israel isn’t close to victory over Iran
Amongst a swirl of pronouncements from Tel Aviv, Washington and Tehran – and against the dramatic backdrop of an Iranian…
The establishment was more afraid of ‘the gammon’ than the groomers
‘When history is written as it ought to be written’, said the great Trinidadian Marxist CLR James, ‘it is the…
France’s toddler screen ban is pure state overreach
The French government is preparing to ban all screen time for children under the age of three. The measure, announced…
A grooming gang inquiry will expose Labour’s guilty men
Sir Keir Starmer claimed in January that those who were concerned about the systematic rape and abuse of little girls…
The good and bad news about the UK-US trade deal
Donald Trump and Keir Starmer’s transatlantic trade deal has finally been signed. Before making an early exit from the G7,…
Casey hits out at ‘politicisation’ of grooming gang report
As Westminster continues to dissect the truly troubling findings laid out by Baroness Casey’s report into Britain’s grooming gang scandal,…
How Iran is piercing Israel’s state-of-the-art missile defences
Since the beginning of ‘Operation True Promise III’ – launched after Israel’s strikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure, leadership targets, and military…
Trump won’t be dragged into a regime-change war
The handsome pages of The Spectator World’s July issue readers will find an essay of mine arguing that the United States…
China targets US citizens with biowarfare weapons
On June 3 the Department of Justice announced charges against two nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The…
The remarkable quest to identify Captain Cook’s Endeavour
The announcement that a shipwreck in Newport Harbor, 200 miles up the coast from New York City, has been proven…
Is Australia derivative?
Donald Horne complained in 1964 that we were ‘derivative’ with ‘second rate’ leaders. The coming of British liberties in 1788…
Is this the worst Labour MP in parliament?
The publication of Louise Casey’s report into rape gangs was a sobering affair. But not, apparently, for Shaun Davies, Labour…
Israel will not be cowed by Iran
Yesterday morning, as families in central Israel emerged from bomb shelters after yet another sleepless night, the air was once…
Why is the US so reluctant to fight Iran?
MAGA (Make America Great Again) isolationists all agree: the United States must not be drawn into the Israel-Iran war. Donald…
Is France succumbing to the British disease?
Sometimes one can almost get away from today’s worries. I spent the other weekend at a big family get-together in…
